Optimizing infant neuroimaging methods to understand the neurodevelopmental impacts of early nutrition and feeding.

There is strong evidence proper nutrition is imperative for healthy infant neurodevelopment, providing the neural foundations for later cognition and behavior. Over the first years of life infants are supported by unique sources of nutrition (e.g.

Effects of early maternal care on anxiety and threat learning in adolescent nonhuman primates.

Early life adverse experiences, including childhood maltreatment, are major risk factors for psychopathology, including anxiety disorders with dysregulated fear responses. Consistent with human studies, maltreatment by the mother (MALT) leads to increased emotional reactivity in rhesus monkey infants. Whether this persists and results in altered emotion regulation, due to enhanced fear learning or impaired utilization of safety signals as shown in human stress-related disorders, is unclear.

Flame retardants of the future: biobased, organophosphorus, reactive or oligomeric.

Polymeric materials have been a great boon to the development and wellbeing of mankind. However, in the main, these materials are flammable and must be flame retarded for most applications. Many substances have been utilized to impart a measure of flame retardancy.